344 PITTONIA. 
large, tubular-funnelform, of a deep reddish flesh color: 
fruit nearly 14 inches long, more than an inch broad, the 
body between the wings marked by 8 (rarely 2, or even 1) 
prominent closely parallel ribs. 
Collected at Las Cruces, New Mexico, June, 1897, by Mr. 
E. O. Wooton, and distributed as “A. cycloptera;” from 
which it is abundantly distinct by characters of flower and 
fruit; and it seems to be perennial, whereas that species is 
certainly annual. 
ABRONIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Stout prostrate or merely as- 
surgent stems 2 or 3 feet long and with swollen nodes; 
herbage minutely hirtellous-roughened and viscid: leaves 
from oblong-laneeolate to oblong-linear, obtuse, veinless, 
their petioles hardly as long as the blade: bracts of the head 
subulate-lanceolate, herbaceous: perianths small; wings of 
the small turbinate fruits reticulate-veiny and marginally 
densely hispid-ciliolate; the whole summit of the fruit his- 
pidulous. 
White sands of Dofia Ana Co., New Mexico, 16 July, 1897, 
E. O. Wooton. 
AMARANTUS VISCIDULUS. Somewhat succulent, diffusely 
branched from the base, the prostrate branches a foot long 
or more, leafy and floriferous throughout: leaves small, 
narrowly obovate or spatulate, obtuse, tipped with a long . 
spine-like slender muero: all the branches, branchlets and 
the petioles strongly pubescent and somewhat viscid: spike- 
lets crowded, their bracts subulate-lanceolate, spinescent 
above the middle and slightly curved outward: fruit not 
known. 
In the Sierra Blanca of southern New Mexico, E. O. 
Wooton, 1897 ; distributed for A. blitoides, which it is quite 
like in habit, but from which it differs widely in being 
pubescent and viscid ; the bracts of the inflorescence being 
wholly different in character. 
